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📰 Newsletter Topic 👸🏻 Society & Culture 💡 Ideas: Big and Small 🤰🏻 Motherhood 😎 Relax & Escape 🧗 Growth 👨👩👧👧 For the Family ⏭ Series
💣= explicit language 🌭 = frank content ⚠️ = sensitive topic
📰 Invisibilia | An Unlikely Superpower (52 min)
“What if you had a superpower that allowed you to see part of the world that was to come? At the age of 60, a Scottish woman named Joy Milne discovers she has a biological gift that allows her to see things that will happen in the future that no one else can see.”
👸🏻 Unlocking Us | Gabby Rivera on Superheroes, Storytelling and Joy as Resistance (65 min)
“In this episode, I talk with writer, storyteller, and joy advocate Gabby Rivera, the first Latina to write for Marvel Comics. Gabby penned the solo series America about America Chavez, a portal-punching queer Latina powerhouse. “
💡 Science Vs. | Probiotics: Gut Superheroes? (6 min)
“Kombucha, kefir and other probiotic-crammed foods are marketed as charmers of the human microbiome — and the key to immune, gut and brain health. But how much does the microbiome actually matter? “
🤰🏻 Modern Love | I See My Superhero | With Sarah Silverman (20 min)
“Sarah Silverman brings us a story of unconditional love … with a few conditions.”
😎 The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos | Psychopaths and Superheroes (30 min)
“We talk a lot about psychopaths – but rarely discuss their polar opposites, super altruists. These are people who go to extreme lengths to help others – even though their acts of kindness might cost them time, money or expose them to physical danger. These folk are also happier than the rest of us.”
🧗 How To! | How To Look Like a Superhero (32 min)
“How did Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman get so buff to play Deadpool and Wolverine? An up-and-coming Hollywood actor wants to know so he can land his own superhero role. In this episode of How To! we turn to Reynolds’ and Jackman’s trainer, Don Saladino, who says the key to six-pack abs and bulging biceps is not what you think. In fact, it’s something we can all do.”
👨👩👧👦 Wow in the World | All-Natural Superheroes Part 1 (24 min)
“Forget Spiderman, The Hulk and Captain America, there are already thousands of real superheroes already lurking among us; in nature. From heat vision to the immortality join Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas on their superhero recruitment drive as they discover the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How and Wow in the World of nature’s all natural superpowers!”
⏭ Business Wars | Estée Lauder vs L’Oréal | Face to Face | 4 (33 min)
“It’s 1979 and Estée Lauder is on top of the world after launching another in-house brand, Prescriptives. But after decades of being primarily known for hair products, L’Oréal is ready to invade the American high-end makeup market. And their secret weapon is Lancôme, a luxurious French brand that they rebrand using tricks straight out of the Lauders’ playbook. “